Surely with Lee Smith's impending departure to Union - along with probably every other young talented player in the game - we should be investing it in veteran Australians? What is Jason Smith up to these days?

Yes, yes and yes in that order. Replacements for Toopi, Scruton and Ellis.

I'm in favour of a £250k cash bid for Sam Burgess.

You reckon the club has £250k in spare cash swilling around in its bank account, given the impending work that needs doing on the ground?

No, but just because we don't have it doesn't mean we can't spend it. Do you not remember the "good old days" Mr Gilder?

I'd estimate that we have significantly more than that in the bank, someone with access to our last filed accounts would be able to confirm.

It's not like it will be doing much in the bank, and I'd be willing to take a guess at the contractor who will get to do the work on the stadium so I think we can afford it....

So am I but I would think it would take a larger bid than that to prize Burgess away.

It took £450k to get Fielden, although they may be more depsarate for cash these days.

Also, I wonder what the out of court settlement over Harris gate was in terms of £s. Maybe we could ask for a player if their liquidity is not so great

i heard 3.5 million was the figure we got from the bulls???? all paid upfront

but never really believed it as this figure sounds unrealistic

3.5 million what though?

Given that the claim against the Bulls was the one Leeds would have most difficulty proving in court, you might want to move that decimal point around a bit. IIRC that figure is somewhere close to what Leeds were asking for originally before the preliminary hearing.

now thats a quality long term signing.

he wasn't worth £35m